Engineering Manager Job at Cardiff Full Time NEW

About Us

At our world is learner and temporary pay-as-you-go car insurance. We know people’s lifestyles are changing and our pay-as-you-go insurance provides our customers with flexible cover by the hour, day or week, so they can get cover when they need it, and not when they don’t. We’re proud to have over million customers and to be backed by Admiral Group, voted Best UK Car Insurance Provider six years in a row by The Personal Finance Awards.

The Role
As a Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a cross-functional engineering team delivering customer-facing products and core platform capabilities. Our teams move quickly, experiment often, and use technology and data to solve real customer problems.

You’ll balance people leadership, technical decision-making, and delivery oversight, ensuring teams ship high-quality, scalable solutions while continuously improving how they work. You’ll support and develop engineers to do their best work, building a high-performing, collaborative team environment.

As we grow our engineering organisation and continue to evolve our platform capabilities and customer experience, you’ll play a key role in shaping how engineering operates at , contributing to team structure, delivery models, and a strong, forward-looking engineering culture.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading, coaching, and developing a team of engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, and structured career development, helping individuals grow and perform at their best
• Creating an inclusive, high-performing team culture that promotes ownership, accountability, psychological safety, and continuous learning
• Partnering closely with Product and Design to deliver high-impact features and meaningful improvements that solve real customer problems
• Enabling teams to deliver at pace without compromising on quality, reliability, or scalability, balancing speed with strong engineering standards
• Collaborating with other engineering leaders to continuously improve engineering practices, systems, processes, and overall team effectiveness
• Proactively identifying delivery risks and dependencies, removing blockers early to keep teams moving and deliveries on track

What We’re Looking For

Essential Experience

• Proven experience managing software engineering teams, within a startup or scale-up environment, with an understanding of the pace, ambiguity, and challenges that come with scaling technology and teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build high-performing, collaborative engineering teams, fostering strong team dynamics and a culture of trust, ownership, and accountability.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments, able to adapt to evolving priorities and make effective decisions with incomplete information.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and build effective relationships across the business.
• A genuine passion for coaching and developing engineers, supporting individuals at different stages of their careers to grow and succeed.
• A pragmatic decision-maker, able to balance speed, quality, and technical production to deliver the best outcomes for both customers and the business.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It’s a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £, of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we’ve been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.

If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email k or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.

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